[ExI] Belief in Market Efficiency

[Damien Broderick]

At 08:13 PM 2/1/2009 +0100, Mirco the second painlord wrote:

>>>Free market traders with education, enlightenment and refinement
>>>(civilized) have the advantage over savages.
>>
>>And, until 150 years ago, often owned them as chattels. (Or were
>>those not free market traders?)
>
>Not exactly true.

<snip well-known evidence that:>

>We can say that also savages were able (and probably are able) to 
>buy civilized people as slaves.

So? Leaving aside the grotesque and loaded original implication that 
*anyone* who enslaves and buys or sells other humans can be 
considered "civilized", the fact that other people also acted 
wickedly does not somehow magically sanitize those "free traders" who 
owned humans as chattels.

Unless you thought I was saying that *only* "Free market traders with 
education, enlightenment and refinement" owned slaves, and even I'm 
not that stupid.

Damien Broderick